The stun mechanic is frustrating. See: The crystal-powered Kulu at the start of the Behemoth quest chain. It has this great move where he stuns you in place, jumps back, then jumps forward smashing your face with the crystal. Insta-cart. A friend of mine nearly uninstalled the game because of how frustrating it was.
That pink rathian is always there on legiana investigations. Funtimes when the basil gets in on the action too. LOL. Pack more poo ; )
To the PS4 players who got in on the action early: everyone still playing? Or has it turned into a dip in an out kinda thing whenever new content drops? Just curious.
Have you tried throwing poo?
Thrown poo to the monster that has been in the area longer (if the monster you want to hunt is the visitor, to the other monster, if the other monster is a invader, to your monster). This monster will flee to other area.
He said he had none at the time.
Neither.
It turns out the way they did the content drops just doesn’t work for me. They kept doing these tiny content drops with like 1 hour of gameplay in them, and cycling the old ones out and new ones in. So there was never enough new stuff to at any one time to make me want to play. I really needed something like a new biome and half a dozen new monsters in one go.
True, but that is a mistake. I was frustrated at this too, it was fun sometimes, but mostly when you are 20 minutes in to a monster kill, the last thing you want to deal with is another asshole monster trying to steal your kill.
I just dung farmed for a while, and now have tons in my chest. My home is stinky, but I always have a full stack every time I go out.
The wandering monsters thing is a new mechanic, that I really like, because if you have dung, it isn’t that bad, a couple shots of poo and they always run away.
I went back to the long sword (I’m starting to suspect that my sword arm is schizophrenic) and having a muuuuch easier time than the last time I wielded it. This really is one of those games where you can feel your player skill gradually improving. The weapon has such a great moveset too and the wide swings are perfect if you mistime your attacks a bit - as long as you clip them it still counts! I made short work of Legiana and the lizards in the Vale and I’m looking forward to see what the game throws at me next.
I do have a question about armor though - I shuffled some gear around and grabbed a few pieces that seemed like a good fit for the sword, but the values are low - how much difference does +3 to attack even make? And how does it even work? Flat dmg per hit, or does it work more like attack power, increasing your total hit number?
Ya, you can’t really complain about a monster coming into a fight when the game specifically gives you a tool to deal with that situation.
It’s not bad game design for them to give you stuff, simply because you didn’t use it.
Same. I might have stuck with it anyway if the endgame “tempered monsters” system were engaging, but it’s terrible, so I couldn’t keep up interest.
If I am in the mood for an intense game, I will drop on for a event or an hour or two. The past month was rough so I backed off this game a bit, but now that PC is here I a playing because I know folks on it, one XBOX addict, MH fan, and my sister so far. I might lure in others.
They totally damage each other. You gotta use your dung pods… pink rathian isn’t even the worst of it. There are at least two later that are… unique dangerous when it comes to adding.
I had like five of them in space once… it was awesome and dangerous.
Pink Rathian is nothing… it’s freaking beezelbub that sucks, just flying in and bombing everything all the time. That guy is such a dick.
Although someone said “he’s much more amusing if you imagine him saying, “HAY GUYZ, WHAT’S GOING ON?” in a dopey voice every time he shows up”. And it’s true.
If that wasn’t me it’s something I’ve said a bunch of times to other people. Bazelgeuse is my dude. He just wants to hang out with everyone else. More than once I’d be in the middle of fighting a monster and turn around just as he slammed into me at 100mph. I can’t even get mad. I’m just like hey buddy, you got me. Good stuff.
After a while you learn to use that against him. One of my favorite kills was the fight where you have to kill two of them. I got the second one by laying down a few giant bombs and standing behind them. Pretty great screenshot for the results screen.
One of the things that MH does better than virtually any game, is create a genuine sense of progression and improvement.
When you first encounter various monsters, they are terrifying and just wreck you. Like Bazel, that guy was seemingly indestructible at first. Even weaker monsters like the stone head dude were super tough when you first ran into them.
But then you kind of learn how they work, and you are able to beat them, and it feels awesome when you do. Eventually it gets to the point where monsters which were once a terror are almost trivial to kill.
It’s extremely well done in this regard.
Haha, and then they give you the plus version, but yeah when fire breathing T-Rex became trivial I smacked him around just because I could!
This is literally what happened to me last night. I wiped several times on Kirin (only had lightning weapons at my disposal, as well as a set of armor with negative thunder resistance lol) and after I finally beat him I moved on to the next main assignment which was set in the ancient forest, where I came across my old buddy Anjanath. So I thought I’d test my newfound skills and upgrades and went to town on his ass, he never stood a chance. I have to admit it felt extremely satisfying.
That’s the spirit!
Of course I am weak against him now since i am trying not to outpace my tiny group, working parents and all. I am even trying to get another one to join. I think he is watching his SO play and just might be interested.
Oh I completely understand, I didn’t have much time to play this week so a friend who I usually game with outpaced me - he played the game before on PS4 so he knows all the tricks, but still. Nevertheless, we managed to do a few coop sessions and it is awesome! I might have to look into public games but I’m honestly not sure how signing up for quests and stuff works then - do you need to coordinate with voice chat or do people follow some generally accepted etiquette?
In any case - still rocking the long sword, but I’m thinking of branching into ranged again now that I have more materials unlocked and more options at my disposal. I was thinking of giving light bowgun another shot - much like my first experience with the long sword, the light bowgun also ended up being a disappointment, but as I’ve experienced first hand with the LS, the power definitely picks up towards the end of low rank (and presumably, even further once you actually get higher rank of abilities on armor). I’m also having a much easier time with combat now that I’ve turned some settings down and I’m hitting more or less stable 60 fps. When I was getting dips down to 40-45 it felt like the game had a pretty severe case of button input lag (like an input queue with over generous timer), which is partly the reason why I found the combat a little frustrating in the beginning.
I also have to echo @Kyle700’s sentiments above - chain stuns suck. I learned that repeatedly versus Rathalos and I’m looking forward to picking some pieces of gear that mitigate these effects. I think sacrificing damage in favor of more stable character will be a very easy decision to make.
I have not done random on PC yet because I am trying to legit keep pace with my slower folks… but it should be the same as PS4. You can join a couple of ways.
If you’re in an active session, like people are posting open quests all the time, it’s a good way to keep going with the same group. They post a quest, it should even show that they did that on the right hand side, or you go to the quest board and just find all the quests. In the beginning there are a lot of story quests but the fun grind, not to be mistaken for the bad kind, I think picks up around the middle and on when everyone is trying to get their specific gear… .I think I started doing this more around the lightning squirrel fox guy and Anjanth (have I mentioned my nephew likes to tell me the name of these monsters every time I don’t use the proper name).
What I liked best though was just answering SOS signals. You can search for those, and that is someone who has asked for help, either to just open up their quest to everyone or because they’re struggling.
I played almost every monster once solo and then 99% of the rest of the game I played wit PUGs. No issues.
I had my Barroth hunt yesterday (that first escort quest, I’ve been busy in my free time unfortunately). Holy crap I came to 5 minutes left before completing. I don’t know if I’m just bad or if it’s normal my level 2 hunting horn hits like a wet noodle.